{"id":340,"date":"2015-09-06T03:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T08:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/?p=340"},"modified":"2015-09-06T03:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T08:28:46","slug":"progress-report-sept-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/progress-report-sept-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress Report: Sept 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behold! The new and improved progress chart!<\/p>\n

\"Progress<\/a>
Progress Chart Sept 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, how does it compare to last time?<\/p>\n

First off, the story. I\u2019ve written an additional 80 pages or so, bringing the total to 163. Though that doesn\u2019t really tell everything. I also did some pretty significant editing on the first 80 pages, made a new and better story flowchart, and did a lot more planning. As for the 25% thing though, that\u2019s a guess. I\u2019m estimating the entire script will end up around 600 \u2013 700 pages, but it\u2019s really too early to say for sure. Anything between 500 and maybe 1,000 is possible.
\nSo how long is it going to take the write the rest? Well, it depends a lot on how much time I have to work on it. If I can spend an average of 2 hours a day, five days a week, I can probably write around 150 pages a month, give or take, once I really get going. Though getting up to that speed requires that I\u2019m able to mostly stick to a regular writing schedule which, with my other work and responsibilities, isn\u2019t always possible. Ideally, I\u2019d like to write for several hours a day, five or six days a week. If I can pull that off, I could have the script done by the end of the year. But that may not be possible. Honestly, if I can finish by next summer I\u2019ll be happy. That said, it looks like I\u2019m going to have a bit more free time than I expected for the next few months, but a lot less next year. So the more I can get done this year, the better.<\/p>\n

In the character art section, the cleanup and coloring is done, which freed me up to focus on the script. Unfortunately, the shading progress has barely budged. Some unfortunate issue have left Brian with little time to work on the shading. However, I\u2019ve been looking for someone to take over and get that finished and work should hopefully resume soon.<\/p>\n

The background art is now complete!<\/p>\n

Now for a big change, CG art has gone from a potential addition to a confirmed part of the game, as you\u2019ve noticed if you\u2019ve been following this blog. At present, 25% of the CGs are done and I know a few more are pretty far along. Progress was moving very quickly for a while. It\u2019s slowed down a lot right now, but will hopefully get back up to speed soon. Once it does, the remaining CGs will likely been finished fairly quickly.<\/p>\n

Sound and music? No progress whatsoever\u2026 I had a composer lined up, but things happened and he was forced to drop out, so now I need to find someone new. That hasn\u2019t been a top priority lately, but I\u2019ll get to it sometime soonish.<\/p>\n

And the rest of the chart is unchanged. Of course, the big question is the release date. Well, if everything went perfectly, the end of this year isn\u2019t impossible, but don\u2019t hold your breath, it\u2019s highly unlikely. Spring or summer next year, however, are more realistic targets, assuming there are no big problems and I don\u2019t get too ridiculously busy with other things. What about a demo? Well, I\u2019ll talk about that next time\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Behold! The new and improved progress chart! Now, how does it compare to last time? First off, the story. I\u2019ve written an additional 80 pages or so, bringing the total to 163. Though that doesn\u2019t really tell everything. I also did some pretty significant editing on the first 80 pages, made a new and better … Continue reading Progress Report: Sept 2015<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,5,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-music-and-sound","category-production-business","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}